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Hello and welcome back to Big Mood. Little Mood, I am your host, Daniel Avery, and with me in the

studio this week is Sarah Marshall, a writer, media critic, and host of the Modern History Podcast.

You're wrong about. She's also the co-host of the Feelings podcast about movies. You are good

with Alex Steed. Sarah, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited for

the next hour of my life. I am too. Not least because I feel like with your with your own shows,

you've got sort of the whole human experience covered like you're wrong and you're good.

I know and like I'm such a spreader of that idea of humanity that like you must embrace your

weakness because it's there that you're good and I think it's because that's such a hard concept

for me and I'm get so stressed out and tough on myself. I appreciate both the ways in which those

two attitudes are really expansive and the ways in which they can keep a listener potentially

slightly on their guard like you're wrong but don't worry, I like you. And I think either sort of

spin on it really works for me. Yeah, it's like podcast career as an egg. You know, there is a time

in place. I'm sure at some point in human history surely someone has been charmed by an egg.

I'm not sure. Footage not found, but yeah, maybe. I never want to rule it out. I mean,

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